Tagged The Highest Science

During Doctor Who’s television hiatus, the show continued in book form, thanks at first to a series of New Adventures published between 1991 and 1996 by Virgin Books (a licence that reverted to BBC Books after this time, and remained there ever since). These books evolved Doctor Who, but weren’t universally popular. With a progressive,…

This week, Christian Cawley and James McLean take their critical eyes to Last Christmas, the Doctor Who Christmas special for 2014, and discover a seasonal treat that stands up well alongside similar adventures. Although there is one question about Santa Claus that remains unanswered… We also take a look at The Highest Science, a new…

Gareth Roberts’ The Highest Science is one of the more well-remembered adventures from the days when new episodes of Doctor Who came as monthly releases in novel form. As such, it’s release as an adapted audio adventure starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor and Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield has been hotly anticipated. So much…

Again, we come with glad tidings of audio joy! Far more useful than a Christmas tangerine, here is your Kasterborous Big Finish News Blast! Today, we have a brand new trailer for Fourth Doctor adventure The Darkness of Glass, The Highest Science is out this month, Big Finish gift ideas, and the Rani speaks in…

Back in 1992, when the world was miserable and had no Doctor Who on the telly, fans of the errant time-botherer flocked to bookstores for their fix. Virgin Publishing had picked up the baton with their series of New Adventures, original novels featuring stories that were ‘too broad and deep for the television screen’. An…

Exciting news for New Adventures fans with the announcement from Big Finish that they’ll be releasing an audio adaptation of The Highest Science later this year! Dating from 1993, Gareth Roberts’s novel (available on Amazon) was his first to be published by Virgin and introduced recurring monsters the Chelonians. Sylvester McCoy will be the Doctor, joined by…

In a few weeks time, collectors of Doctor Who novels can breathe a sigh of relief and indulge in what is surely an important release. Finally Shada, the untelevised Douglas Adams-penned Doctor Who serial from 1979, will be released as a full novel. This is something that we Doctor Who fans have been waiting for…